Flashback: Carly Simon Performs Cat Stevens-Inspired ‘Anticipation’ in 1971. Fifty years ago this week, the singer-songwriter spent five nights opening for Stevens at the Troubadour.

Carly Simon says her classic ‘Anticipation’ was inspired and written about Cat Stevens while she was waiting for him to come to her house for dinner.

Carly Simon says her classic ‘Anticipation’ was inspired and written about Cat Stevens while she was waiting for him to come to her house for dinner.

On some arbitrary night, Carly Simon invited Cat Stevens over for dinner. He was 40 minutes late, and while waiting, she wrote "Anticipation".

Carly Simon's 'Never Been Gone' Simon has recorded some of America's most beloved songs. Her new album, ... who was then called Cat Stevens, and I was opening the show for him.

Carly Simon: Irresistible ... to men too and in the early 1970s Beatty came onto her at the Troubadour in Los Angeles where she was opening for Cat Stevens. Simon writes that Beatty came into her ...

For years there has been debate about which of Carly Simon's ex-boyfriends could have inspired the hit song You're So Vain. But while former lovers Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens and ...

CARLY SIMON snubbed ex-boyfriend CAT STEVENS when he reached out decades after their split, because she'd forgotten he'd converted to Islam and changed his name to YUSUF ISLAM 11:55, Mon, Oct 19, 2009 ...